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“You drive a hard bargain, Silas. Fine, I will go to this dinner with you, but only because I don’t think you can make it a full dinner without being an asshole. I am looking forward to winning the revenge activity.”

Clapping her hands in excitement, she pulls Silas into a hug as she whispers something into his ear. She let him go as he says “Yes ma’am.” Wrapping me in a hug, she whispers into my ear, “You are destined for him. Give him a chance to show you the real him.” She pulls back with her hands on my shoulders. The warmest, most welcoming look on her face as she gives me the smallest of smiles. “You are home, Nova, and I am so glad you finally made it here.”

There is a sting behind my eyes as the tears spring up. After losing my parents, all I wanted was to find a place that felt like home. Her saying that means so much to me. “You can go ahead and head home, dear. Silas can handle tearing down the stand, plus I need to have a conversation with him, anyway.”

Looking between the both of them, “You sure?” They both nod at me. “Okay, well, I will see you guys later than.”

“Oh and dear, Silas will pick you up tomorrow at 7pm for dinner.”

“Oh, okay. Well, see you then, Silas.” He tips his head towards me as I turn to walk my way back home.

As I’m pulling off my seventeen decorative pillows, pulling back my comforter and flat sheet, I can’t help but reflect on today. I can’t say that when I woke up this morning that I would end the day with a date with Silas, of all people. Shaking my head, I pull off my diamond earrings that my father gave me on my 21st birthday. It was my last gift from him before I lost him. I pull off my mother’s wedding band from my right ring finger. Thankfully, they were able to recover it.

Pumping lotion into my hands, I think about the stolen glances I was able to steal from Silas as he was busy with customers. He is a rugged beauty. He flexes his jaw when he is trying to figure something out. I am blown away that he not only knows everyone in town, but also remembers things happening in their lives. Not going to lie, the second I saw him hold one of the babies as he cooed at her, my ovaries were crying. I had to look away because what woman doesn’t swoon when you see a man being cute with a baby?

He has these piercing blue eyes that seem unnatural, but no matter which way I look at his eyes, I never see the blue ring of contacts. I’ve never seen a blue like his. At one point, he rolled his sleeves up to his elbow, swoon. What is it about a man's forearms that when he rolls his sleeves up, all bets are off. I was almost willing to forgive his assholeness just from looking at his forearms alone. If they are that toned, lord knows what he looks like under all those layers.

Shaking my head as I chuckle at myself, I agreed to one dinner, not to sleep with him. I hope that agreeing to this wasn’t a huge mistake. Granted, the revenge activity sounds great.

Clicking off my lamp, I snuggle under my blankets. Sighing, I really hope that he isn’t an asshole at dinner tomorrow.

Chapter 11

Silas

Man, I am glad that she agreed to the dinner, although reluctantly. It wasn’t my idea to give her the revenge activity, but if I didn’t convince her, I was afraid that Storm was going to take over and do it his way. Nobody wants to deal with a wolf determined to claim his mate. He doesn’t even realizehow foolish he made us look when we were just standing there staring at her.

Well, maybe if you didn’t royally fuck it up every time you happen to open your mouth towards her, then I wouldn’t have had to take control during that conversation.

I was doing just fine. You made us look weird by just staring at her. If it wasn’t for Gail interrupting, do you think that you would have snapped out of it?

I would rather look weird than an asshole, like you were behaving. Gail is the only reason that you have this date.

I could have convinced her without either of your help. You guys didn’t give me a chance.

Oh, but we did. For a week we have let you handle this and all you did was push her further and further away. This is our chance to make her ours. Don’t fuck it up again.

I got this. I just need to come up with some ideas on how to win her over. Do you have any ideas?

Yeah, bite her, mark her, and then ask for forgiveness.

I am glaring at him, and he knows it. You just said that I was being an asshole and you don’t think that is very assholeish behavior?

Okay, okay. Yeah, that isn’t going to do it. I don’t know; I am a wolf and follow those instincts. Maybe Warrick would be better to ask?

You might be right, I will see if he can come help. I open my phone and tap Warrick's contact. I shoot off a quick message for him to meet me at my house.

Only a second later, a message pops up, showing that he was on his way.

I put on a pot of coffee for the both of us. I am going to need it. Storm isn’t wrong. I am pretty sure this is the only chance Nova is going to give us. We fuck this up and we might as well accept that our mate will never be ours.

Warrick calls out from the front door, “I’m in the kitchen,” I yell back to him.

I hand him a cup of coffee as soon as he enters the kitchen. “I am glad that you were able to make it over here.”

Smirking, he looks at me over the rim of his coffee cup, “Ahhh, well I figured after the way you behaved yesterday towards Nova, plus what Gail told me when she came by to see how the dunking booth went. You are going to need all the help that you can get.”

“Yeah, well, it wasn’t my finest moments, but I want to win her over. I know this dinner is going to be my only chance to do so. So instead of giving me shit over the past, how about we go over some ideas,” I glare at him.

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